Clever Parents is the website for smart, successful parents. The Clever Parents site is for all parents—moms and dads—who are figuring out ways to get the most out of every day and every dollar and who do it in a way that’s healthy, fun, and… clever. Clever Parents enlists a community of Clever Parents for advice, content, products and interviews that inform and inspire. Stylish, instructive, useful, inspirational, and sometimes irreverent, Clever Parents isn’t another parenting site - it is a site for parents.

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About the Founders

David and Kris Jackson are the founders of Clever Parents and Clever Parents TV and live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Prior to founding Clever Parents, both David and Kris worked for start-up technology companies. David has held a range of executive positions in sales, channel management and marketing. Kris has worked in various senior level marketing and product management roles.

When they are not working on Clever Parents, they are trying their best to be Clever Parents to their three sons, Henry (4), Will (3) and baby Charles.

When they used to have spare time they enjoyed triathlons, kayaking, running, travel, hiking, mountain biking, and renovating their house.

Contact us at:

Clever Parents
514 Daniels Street
Suite 270
Raleigh, North Carolina 27605

or via email at info@cleverparents.com

About Operation Shower

In 2007, David and Kris teamed up with Lena Morrissey of Lena’s Notebook to form Operation Shower, a non-profit organization that organizes and throws baby showers for new and expectant moms whose spouses are deployed overseas.

In less than a year, Operation Shower has celebrated more than 100 women through unit wide showers and ’showers in a box’, delivering tens of thousands of dollars worth of baby, mom and dad gear to these deserving families. Learn more at www.OperationShower.org

June 3, 2007: NBC-17 Runs Feature Story on Operation Shower including footage from the event and interview with Clever Parents co-founder, Kris Jackson.

June 3, 2007. News 14 Carolina features Operation Shower at Fort Bragg. 17 Army moms showered with gifts for their babies.

June 1, 2007. WRAL-TV anchor Lynda Loveland interviews Clever Parents co-founder, Kris Jackson, on live morning TV about upcoming Operation Shower baby shower for 17 Army moms in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

As we’ve mentioned on several vidcasts and in our newsletter, Clever Parents is co-sponsoring with Lena’s Notebook a baby shower for 17 Army moms from Fort Bragg. Lena came up with the idea and we’re very proud to be a part of it. The shower is Sunday, June 3rd from 2-4pm and will celebrate the moms and their babies with food, gifts and fun. Read the rest.

Raleigh, NC - Clever Parents Launches Online Vidcasts for Parents

Lights: Part blog, part portal, with interviews and video thrown in, Clever Parents (www.cleverparents.com), the website for smart, successful parents has been called “whimsical, vibrant and stylized,” with its “hip mom and fashionable dad” logo and “decidedly upscale bent.” Read the rest.

We are happy to introduce our easy-link page to people and companies who want a link to Clever Parents from their own website or home page. With a variety of ways to link to us, in just a few minutes you can bring the Clever Parents community to your visitors. Choose one of the following options for linking to Clever Parents: Read the rest.

Betsy Kramer, known to Clever Parents as a professional organizer and the fabulous columnist providing weekly organizational tips and tools through her Clutter Busting column was featured today on The (CBS) Early Show. Betsy’s amazing story in which the burning of her house and all of her worldly possessions inspired her to reevaluate what was truly important to her resulted eventually in launching her own business - Cash in Clutter. Read the rest.